UPDATED: I created another post that updates my approach for working with Silverlight Child Windows. So it has been a long time since I did a pure technical post. In fact I have completely blown my goals for the year. I am going to keep working towards them. My life has been hectic since the... Continue Reading →
MEF, MVVMLight and Silverlight…Oh My!
Well, it is the last day of 2009 and I am posting my last coding post of the year. Nothing like waiting until the last day of the year to complete my goal of three substantial coding post before the end of the year. In the coming days I will be putting a post together... Continue Reading →
Silverlight 4 Data Binding: String Format
This is the second substantial coding post to reach my goal of three by the end of the year. In this post I will demonstrate the new string formatting functionality in Silverlight 4 data binding. There have been a lot of new functionality in data binding. The string formatting functionality will help save time and... Continue Reading →
Writing Custom Exceptions
Source Code: DownloadThis is the first post on my goal of writing 3 substantial posts by the end of the year. I decided to write this post on exception handling more specifically writing a Custom Exception. Why would we want to have custom exceptions. The first reason to create an exception is because the exception... Continue Reading →
LINQ – Deferred Query Evaluation
I have recently started reading Programming Microsoft LINQ. I am still in the first few chapters but came across a aspect of LINQ that could cause a frustrating bug in a developer’s code. I have not used LINQ that much in my day to day development so I have not had a bug caused by... Continue Reading →
What’s in that box
Recently someone asked me a question that any first year Computer Science major could answer without blinking an eye. But for those of us who have been out of school for a while have to stop, think, have a brain freeze, and finally go Google it. In the end you knew what it meant but... Continue Reading →
Dave's Two Cents 